The sea-level is rising, year after year; up to an expected rise of up to 10 metres in the coming centuries. So how to protect the people living in the low countries against the consequences? Of course, every single government…
By the year 2040, Europe will have run out of raw materials for the production of concrete. Concrete is made from sand, gravel, water, and cement, raw materials that are increasingly difficult to obtain. Sand is mostly extracted from rivers,…
With Valentine’s Day approaching, the Aleia Roses company at Avenida de las Rosa 1 near the town of Garray in Spain has in recent weeks been working overtime again. Because doesn’t a loved one long to give the most beautiful…
The high tech and medical industry is responsible for a large part of our economic growth, and therefore of our prosperity. It is now well known that this hardware-dominated world cannot do without software expertise, but good process control, reliability…
February is already in full swing. But at IO we’re taking a moment to look back on January. We still owe you a Start-up of the Month! Each workday on IO you get to follow the pioneers who’ve got innovation…
In our weekly ‘follow-up’ column we feature a sequel to the best-read article of the past week. This week: An Austrian start-up discovers an already existing drug that could potentially be used against the coronavirus. The number of people who…
”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week column. Over the past few days, five start-ups of the day have been featured and…
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be evaluated this year. Yet it was originally drafted at a time when IoT, AI, smart sensors or cloud services were virtually non-existent. As in the past, the GDPR will likely not…
What might machines capable of moral behaviour effectively mean in practice? The Swedish fiction series Real Humans presents an interesting spin on this question. ‘Hubots‘ – a contraction of ‘human’ and ‘robot’ – live together with human beings. They then…
The professor sat at a table at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. He had just taken part in a discussion on artificial intelligence. The Eiffel Tower was artificial, as was Venice that was a little further down the road.…